England 32 31 Australia

Man, that was a good match. I was fraternising with the enemy again like last weekend, shouting at ~~them~~ their team... I couldn't help it, they were so weak! Tell me, was there or was there not an Aussie on the ground injured almost every single time there was a break in play? I mean come on. This isn't schoolboy rugby. But what I love most about the whole thing is the way Wilkinson nowadays just kicks the opposition into submission. Always, straight through the middle between the uprights. Simple. Effective. Yeah baby!

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Marathon Training

Help, I've just come back from a 50 minute run and I'm gonna die. It feels good though. I took my walkman with me because I think it helps me not to walk all of it. I went right through Regent's Park, up Primrose Hill, then round the west side of the park and back home.

Going up Primrose Hill was definitely the hardest part. On came "No Woman No Cry" (for your information a 7:07 minute long track) about half way down the Regent's Park Broadwalk and I got to the top of Primrose Hill before the end. But to be honest, it took all of Mr Marley and the Wailers' consoling to stop me from shedding a few tears.
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Just go read the first paragraph of this really, REALLY useful article on what to do if under a terrorist attack...

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Got some new running shoes yesterday so training for the marathon can begin! (...tomorrow... if it's not too wet... and if I wake up in time to leave an hour or so before the rugby match versus the Aussies...)

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Okay, okay you got me, so I'm surfing the web at work... Here's a really useful browser for making it subtle.

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Some of my workmates got into the audience of the Frank Skinner Show last night which is showing this evening. How exciting! Minesh is the odd-looking indian bloke who's right under Frank when he's singing "Fun Town Frankie". No sign of Dan though because apparently he got moved towards the back, the reason being (according to Minesh) that his head was too big! Rude.

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Few of life's disappointments can match that of waking up and realising it's Monday morning. Even finding a cupboard in your overheated hotel room that says "minibar", only to find it empty is far less depressing I find. Sam (who I was sharing the room with and is a look-alike to Steve "And this one's REALLY dangerous" Irwin) and I would've done well with a couple of drinks. We woke up on Sunday (to seagulls with megaphones) so dehydrated due to the unbearable heat. Forget about licking any stamps, our mouths were paper bags...

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Without trying to be a schismatic, one of the highlights of the Alpha Weekend was definitely the rugby result over the All Blacks. I think those who saw it would agree the Jonny Wilkinson is a modern day legend and that Lomu is still a freak of nature. That 67th minute run down the left wing with him handing off two, well, fairly big chaps and getting another quite beefy bloke to bounce off him like a ping pong ball was quite impressive.

Alpha was great though. Met loads of the others on the course and even found this Scottish girl who'd done oriental studies at Oxford and spoke mandarin! She'd even stayed in Taipei on a road just off the one where I grew up. Freaky!
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